Talk:Super Bowser

Include information on all of Bowser's Giant forms

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This will probably go down in flames, but I have to make a stand.

Okay, the way we are handling things here just doesn't make sense to me. We have two articles for what is really the same form: Bowser, but giant. Super Bowser should cover information on all occasions in which Bowser has a significant size change within a given game. Why are things the way they are? Well, Super Bowser (as we now know is his his official name) has been a touchy subject in the past. There are three proposals about what to do with it. To compress the information, here are the opposing arguments along with my counterarguments.

"Becoming large isn't a different form. It's the same thing as Bowser, only bigger."

"Tell that to Super Mario. It's Mario, but bigger. Of course, he has new abilities (smashing blocks), but Super Bowser uses different attacks from normal Bowser as well."

"Bowser's size changes a lot in and between games. It's pretty much an inherent ability of his by now."

"That's just another reason to give it an article. Jumping is just one of Mario's abilities. So is crouching. And backflipping. Those all have articles. So do Mario's forms, like Fire Mario. They're all things Mario does. Becoming giant is something Bowser does. And I don't want to talk about his fluctuating size. Only games where we see him at one size and then at another would be covered. (Except modest changes, such as in New Super Mario Bros.)"

"Bowser grows using many different methods. For example, in the NSMB series, he is enlarged with magic. But in M&L:DT, he eats loads of meat."

"This is true. But is it really relevant? He ends up roughly the same giant size no matter the method. They're different games. Fire Mario had white overalls in Super Mario Bros., but we don't call it a different form just because they're red in the newer games."

"Super Bowser is a name found only in NSMB guides, so it follows that it only applies to them."

"Okay, this is actually a pretty good argument. But we have Giant Bowser, to stay consistent with Giant Luigi. Giant Bowser is a conjectural name. If anything, that article should be merged here. And at that point, it seems like we might as well just take every other growth too. Okay, not my best argument. I'll depend on my other counterarguments to outweigh this one."

One last thing: think of our readers. After all, that's who we're writing this wiki for. I would imagine casual fans would be confused as to why there is two articles for the form they likely know as Giant Bowser (I'm not saying we should move the article. Super Bowser is still the official name). From a casual standpoint, it makes way more sense to just cover the all giant forms in one article. And if you want to look at it from a professional standpoint, look above.

To be absolutely clear, here is a list of the games the article would cover should this proposal pass:

• Super Mario Sunshine
• New Super Mario Bros. Wii
• Super Mario Galaxy 2
• New Super Mario Bros. 2
• New Super Mario Bros. U
• Mario Party 5
• Paper Mario
• Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door
• Paper Mario: Sticker Star
• Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story
• Mario & Luigi: Dream Team
• Super Princess Peach
• Yoshi's Island DS
• Yoshi's New Island

Proposer: Ultimate Mr. L (talk)
Deadline: August 1, 2018, 23:59 GMT

Support

1. Ultimate Mr. L (talk) Per the man in green up there.
2. Doc von Schmeltwick (talk) {{Part conjecture}} and Everything but the kitchen sink exist for a reason, I'd say this makes the most sense to do.
3. YoshiFlutterJump (talk) Per proposal.
4. Toadette the Achiever (talk) Per all.

Comments

Even if this fails, I still think something should be done about Giant Bowser, just because of the conjectural name.
Ultimate Mr. L (Talk-Contribs-Stats) 20:50, 17 July 2018 (EDT)

At this current moment, I can nether support or oppose. Only if there was new information since the proposal would it be easier. Yoshi the SSM (talk) 22:26, 17 July 2018 (EDT)

@Doc How come you mentioned Everything but the kitchen sink in your vote? Having read it, it relates to this issue, but it doesn't look like it supports this argument.
Ultimate Mr. L (Talk-Contribs-Stats) 10:25, 18 July 2018 (EDT)

It's against things that are superficially and incidentally similar, like having several paragraphs regarding "Toddler Terrors of Time Travel" in the Baby Mario article instead of a cursory mention. This is more of a deliberately-recurring theme than what is cautioned against there. You aren't asking for a section related to "Mario and the Beanstalk" or anything like that, after all. This is primarily about Bowser getting gigantic for a final boss, which is a valid theme in many games. The only real exception I see here are the TTYD and BiS parts, but they still seem to be more than incidental, particularly the latter. Doc von Schmeltwick (talk) 14:27, 20 July 2018 (EDT)

TTYD could be seen as an incidental transformation, given that Bowser's size continues increasing incrementally rather than simply shooting up to what has become the standard Super Bowser size. Not arguing not cover it, just pointing that out.

Ultimate Mr. L (Talk-Contribs-Stats) 11:40, 21 July 2018 (EDT)

Looking at Paper Mario's final battle, Bowser's size increase isn't a whole lot, whereas Super Bowser is usually much bigger. In fact, Super Bowser's size actually pretty consistent between games. I'm not sure whether the article should cover PM.
Ultimate Mr. L (Talk-Contribs-Stats) 11:19, 28 July 2018 (EDT)

The game labels the Star Rod-powered Bowser as simply "Bowser", so I'd say no. LinkTheLefty (talk) 11:22, 28 July 2018 (EDT)